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Just back from China where I had a very interesting talk with a friend about Zhima credit. I had heard about it, but it’s becoming really scary, what he explained left me astonished… We went to a posh restaurant in Shanghai and we got a really nice table, and he explained it was because he had a good Zhima credit

A few weeks ago I went to visit some new factories with a client. We had a tight trip, 15 factories in 5 days. These factories had been pre screened by our Hangzhou office but, as always, you don’t really know a factory until you visit it.

We visited one of the factories, in Guangdong province, and we had a suprise

So, China joined the SDR. Not a big suprise… as we already explained in this post, one of the reasons behind the devaluation of the yuan some monthes ago was to give Christine Lagarde and the IMF an excuse to include the chinese currency in the SDR basket.

As I have explained in other posts, pollution is one of the main concerns of Chinese citizens. In one of the last trips I took to China I went to Handan city in Hebei province, a heavy industrial area. Visibility was less than 30 metres because of pollution, we could barely see the cars in front of us

There are a lot of articles lately about the Chinese stock market crash. Many of them says it’s the signal that the Chinese economy will have a hard landing, that will have consequences for the economy of all countries in general. While it’s true that China is growing at a slower rate than the last years, the stock market is

If you have been reading the news about the Chinese Yuan devaluation in the last weeks, you will probably not have a clear idea of what is happening with the Yuan right now. I have read all sort of articles, from good ones

Last week I was invited to speak in a conference about entepreneurship at ESCI-UPF university, together with the US consul in Barcelona. It was very interesting and it made me think about America position in the world, especially in relation to China.

After getting used to a world with America as a single referee, the situation is quickly changing. We are moving